will: it's the 9:00 a.m. hour on "fox & friends weekend" starting with a fox news alert, 179 people are dead after a plane veered off the runway and crashed in south korea. we break down what could have gone wrong. rachel: elon musk says visa is why he's in america, as president trump makes his feelings known about the controversial program. joe: which teams are on the road to super bowl lix, today's must see matchups could paint the picture for the playoffs, a look ahead at week 17 on the nfl. the final hour of "fox & friends weekend" starts right now. ♪ will: good morning, welcome to fox and friends, we're back on the eve of 2025. we were just here with celebrity

trainer kristie joy and as we went to break she showed us the coolest trick. she's still hanging out. check this out. this is what you can get with three weeks of training. rachel: kristie, will teddy be able to do this if i send teddy to you for a few weeks? >> how big is teddy? rachel: you just saw him. >> good boy. will: that's a cool trick right there. rachel: i'm impressed, kristie. kristie joy dot-com. joe: i can't think of anything more useful than being able to have a dog that you lie down and he jumps on the soles of your shoes. rachel: it's impressive for cocktail parties many . i love the segment we did. i have a lot of dog problems and a busy house and i thought maybe i could do zoom training with kristie. then i talked to will and will is like i see your dog, he's smart, he's cute. you've got to send him away and so we just talked to kristie and

we're going to do that. will: he'll come back very well behaved. rachel: i trust will with dog advice and kristie too. kristiejoy.com by the way. >> we'll see how saint turns out. rachel: i think saint doesn't need kristie. he needs freud. will: he's a normal dog that wants to pro create. rachel: make more babies, i'm down with that. will: at least 179 people are dead after a fiery plane crash in south korea. the 15-year-old boeing plane carrying 181 people skidding off the runway at an airport 180 miles south of seoul. >> cleanup continues this morning after the aircraft exploded on impact with a concrete wall and the airport. we want to warn you, the video of the crash is graphic and some of you may find it disturbing.

rachel: incredibly, two crew members have been pulled from the wreckage alive but emergency crews without any life threatening injuries. that is a miracle, truly. meanwhile, local officials say the control tower issued a bird strike warning and the pilots declared may day before trying to land the plane. will: reports say the landing gear was not deployed. sad story that we talked about throughout the morning, what happened with the landing gear, what happened with it failing when it comes to its air flaps, no brakes, as it belly landed on the runway. we're going to be joined by an aviation expert at 9:20 a.m. eastern time. rachel: that's right. we'll get more information on that. the black box has been found. so hopefully there will be more answers coming from that as well. this is an interesting topic.

we've been discussing it. we discussed it yesterday. it's still raging online. we're going to discuss it right now, which is on the h1 1b visa. elon musk and vivek ramaswamy say they believe this is the way to make america competitive in the tech world but a lot of other people saying wait a minute, the visa program has been abused. a lot of americans would like these entry level coding jobs that are going to a lot of people that are coming from other countries with the incentive that they eventually will get a green card and be able to bring family members over. people say these people are qualified, sure, but we have people here in america. donald trump weighed in on this which left a lot of people confused. he seemed to have been against some of the abuses of this program earlier in 2016 he weighed in ob on it. here he is saying to the new

york post, i've always liked the visa, that's why we have them. i have the visas in my properties. i am a believer in h1b, i used it many times. it's a great program. what do you make of this? >> as you pointed out earlier, the idea of having a program that allows an elon musk to come into the country, i don't think anybody has a problem with that, and certainly donald trump doesn't have a problem with that. the problem with the program is that it's been so abused and turned into a system where it is designed for a big tech employer to get maybe not cheap labor but cheaper labor. will: and inden cdentured serve serveitude. you have to remain employed with whoever brought you over. >> you remain indebted to them for perhaps a lifetime. these are the very abuses that the first trump administration

tried to clean up and i think successfully did clean up. rachel: i'm not entirely sure, we should fact check that, i'm not entirely sure if you have to remain with that company. will: for a period of time. rachel: for a period of time. i think you're right. i think the term you used is correct. i think the ultimate thing is you have to remain -- people don't just -- they're not just coming for the salary. they're coming for the opportunity to stay here and then chain migration, hopefully bring family members over. elon musk weighed in on this. he said the reason i'm in america along with so many critical people who built spacex, tesla and hundreds of other companies that made america strong is because h1b. take a step back and blank yourself in the face if you're against it. will: he's doing a line from tropic thunder. rachel: tropic thunder, expressing that -- will: you pointed this out. i saw this on your x feed yesterday. it was really good. nicole shanahan, rfk's running

mate for a while, she's a silicon valley veteran. she weighed in. it was a wrong thread where she explained the pu pros and probh the visa system. she said i take issue with some the discourse i read online suggesting lazy american culture is the main reason why we need to continue the h1b program. i agree with her on that. she said tech companies getting massive breaks on cheap labor at the expense of the american way of life is predatory, blaming our culture for why american stem grads don't take underpaying jobs is ridiculous and insulting. rachel: my son-in-law is a math guy, majored in math at university of wisconsin, he said they don't pay enough. part of the reason they don't pay enough, they have an influx of workers willing to work for less because what they get paid in the states is less than they get in india and has the incentive of staying. >> of course, the real problem

here is something -- it's a much larger problem across the board with globalization and made far worse by having open borders where you get not only some of the skilled labor but also lots and lots of unskilled labor. one of the things i think that i value about having this argument, this discussion is that we want these big tech companies in america to be invested in american education. so that -- and that's a long-term problem and a lot of these people don't think long-term. they just want the instant grat gratification solution like you were talking about. we need schools designed to give students valuable, usable talents, not stupid idiotic courses on dei or teaching racism. it's idiotic when what we need are students that are prepared to take these jobs and have these jobs be well -- good

paying jobs. will: we're not an algorithm. we're not a company. we are a country. we're a nation. we are a people. and that purpose of that nation is to serve americans. ned ryan was on "fox & friends" earlier, he talked about serving americans. >> america fundamentally is not an economic zone. we're not some global store front. americans should not be treated as second class citizens in their own country because federal policies allows billion dollar corporations to hire foreign workers at under market wages instead of paying american workers full wages. if we can frame the conversation that way and understand the system is broken, it needs to be reformed and the american people should be prioritized on all things, that's the message of america first many i think stephen miller has made it very clear how he feels about the h11b visas. there is need for reform. the starting part in the conversation with h1b visas is how do you reduce the numbers to

bring in those that are exceptional and not let it be abused. i feel confident that stephen miller and his reform ideas h1b visas will be what will happen the second term. rachel: if you limit the visas and only bring in the elon musks and the really exceptional people, what you're going to see is there's a tighter market and the wages will have to be -- you'll vi have to pay wages that young math students like my son-in-law who is married and has to support a family would want to be part of and that may mean, guys, guess what, fox news alert, it may mean that big tech bosses make a little less money and they have to pay their workers a little better. i think all of us would be okay with that. by the way, this debate we talk about how healthy this debate is for everybody, for this country, especially on the right to be having, this is a comment to that really thoughtful post from nicole shanahan, a tech person weighed in and said imagine if we took the money from the department of education and

created stem block grants to give kids educational opportunities in under-served communities. this is what we should be thinking about, not importing people to do entry level coding jobs but how do we take our kids who need jobs and maybe can be trained into this and i think if we change our education system, we certainly can. >> and i think it's completely fitting that the debate is also not only happening on the republican side but also happening within sort of the maga movement, within the trump movement because of all the politiciansings donald trump is the only politicians to come along in decades and recognize the problem of immigration whether it's legal or illegal but the problem of globalization and immigration and how it affects people and families. will: and to that point, i would just add even if it is the 0.0.1%, the best of the best, there's still a requirement to buy into the american way of

life, al sim similar -- assimile into the culture to make it so everyone wants to be in america. rachel: it's the thought that some how americans are mediocre. we are not. there's a lot that adds to intelligence. there's raw intelligence. there's emotional intelligence. there's cultural intelligence. there's a lot of things that weigh into that but we should set our educational system up so that our own children can access these opportunities. >> nothing is done more to destroy the fabric of the country than the open border, the intentional open border by the biden administration to allow millions of illegals into the country who have no interest in trying to climateize to the american culture and we are seeing and of course the media does everything they can to sort of cover this up but we have

heart breaking photographs of 5-year-old and a 9-year-old who were found at the border, dropped off, probably by the cartels, probably -- possibly in an effort to divert our border resources away from their effort to move what's more valuable to them, massive drug shipments across the border in another area. will: they came across with just that sheet of paper you can see in the photo that had an address and phone number. lieutenant christopher olivarez posted that, saying troopers recovered two unaccompanied children left behind. they were el salvador, 5 and 9. had a note with address and phone number. they were referred to u.s. border patrol. rachel: this is child abuse what happened to these children. let's be frank about it. poverty is not an excuse for child abuse. their parents put them in the hands of evil cartels who

abandoned them in the desert with a phone number. that piece of paper, we should find out who are those people? who are these people that these children were supposed to be sent to? we've lost as you guys know 300,000 children. and we talk about the horrors that happen to these children along the journey, many of them raped, abused, traumatized, but then when they get lost in our system, i know you mentioned that bringing people across the border or bringing drugs and things across the border, you know, that's valuable but guess what? human beings are also valuable. there are children that are sex trafficked over and over and over again and so that's important, the horrors that happened to them. once they get there, who are the people on the card, on the letter? who are those people. our dhs doesn't know. until donald trump gets in office we won't be able to talk about that because this administration hasn't given a damn about these people. >> when i say valuable, i need

volvaluable monetarily for the smugglers. rachel: they can be repurposed over and over again, including the children. >> maybe this is not the goal that the biden administration was going for, but it was all intentional. and they created this with intentional policies. rachel: absolutely. turning now tour headlines. three people are in custody right now and several hospitalized after a stabbing incident at a restaurant in the suburbs of chicago. officers finding several victims from stab wounds on the scene in oak forest, illinois yesterday. their current conditions and circumstances surrounding the incident are unknown. the investigation remains ongoing. credit card debt set to hit a record-breaking level as holiday shopping numbers continue to rise. analysts say shoppers are increasingly relying on credit cards this season as opposed to in years past. that's an interesting stat

there. the national retail federation reporting that spending between november 1st and december 31st is clearly on track to finish between 979.5 billion and $989 billion. if you're looking for luck heading into 2025 you might be interested in some of these unique traditions from around the world. in spain, i know this tradition well, it's good luck to east 12 grapes, one for each month at midnight. ancient chinese lure says it's bad luck to clean your house because you're sweeping away good fortune. >> we already subscribe to that. leltothat. rachel: making sure your wallet is full at midnight to bring in financial health this year. will: what does full mean? >> full of receipts? will: in texas, black-eyed

peas. rachel: what's the meaning? will: not entirely remembering. but good luck. we asked what's your new year's resolution. e-mails are pouring in. kristie said i want to eat healthy, read more and limit social media to 20 minutes a day. that would be a real victory. rachel: that's amazing. i should follow up on christie's resolution. vic vicki says call my siblingsd mom more often to tell them i love them. >> amanda writes learn how to play chess, go to church every sunday. rachel: i love our fires. will: randy says number one, quit smoking, number two gain 10 pounds. i love keeping my goals attainable. i never smoked and i love to eat. >> whenever i'm having a hard time getting going, i start a to-do list and the first three things i put on my to-do list are things eu6 a i've already d.

i go back and go check, check, check. it kick starts your -- will: someone told me when you make a to-do list, do the worst one first, the hardest one first somebody told me that. >> what's even better, do the one you've already done first, then it's done. will: award yourself a few check marks. >> it's a recipe for success. rachel: will, you have such a long list. if we had to force you, each of you, to just one resolution, what would it be? >> will: do i pick the one where i honor god and his purpose or take my wife on a get-away. obviously, be grateful and honor god and his purpose. rachel: i love that you put a get away with your wife on your list. that's not a gift just for kathleen and you, it's a gift for your kids.: i'll be nicer,t what you're saying? rachel: a strong healthy marriage is the best gift you could give. will: back to our top story. 179 people are dead after a plane crashed in south korea.

an aviation expert breaks down what could have gone wrong, next.

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>> a fox news alert. 179 are dead after a boeing passenger jet skidded off a

south korean runway, killing all but two on board in one of the country's worst aviation disasters. we warn you, the video is graphic and some of you may find it disturbing. kyle bailey is a pilot and former faa safety team representative. he joins us now. thank you for joining us, kyle. >> good morning. >> i think earlier you said that you thought this was clearly equipment failure. what do you think happened here? >> you know, i'm not really leaning towards equipment failure. it's very unusual that the airplane is in a cruise flight configuration for landing meaning the landing gear is in the up position, the flaps are in the up position, there are no slats extended on those wings to slow the airplane down.

so the airplane is basically coming in very hot. now, if it was in fact a bird strike or if there was, say, an engine failure on the right engine, it appears there might have been engine problems on the right side, it doesn't explain why the airplane is coming in so hot and with the landing deer gear inthe up position. normally there would be bells and alarms going on in the cockpit of the airplane but it's leading me to believe the pilot was preoccupied with possibly multiple things happening at the same time to explain the airplane basically in that cruise flight configuration for landing and coming in very hot. >> so two questions. one is, how fast do you think the plane was traveling when it starts skidding across the runway and if the people on the ground were able to put foam down before it landed, would that have made a difference?

>> you know, i don't think so. the speed i always say maybe is about 20 or 30 knots higher than it typically should be but that's just speculation but the key here is that the airport has instrument landing equipment pretty much a housing structure right in the vicinity of runway end which is very common at most airports but here in the u.s. those facilities are very light weight and pretty much meant to break apart if they were impacted by an airplane. it appears from that explosion on the airplane is a result of the aircraft impacting that ststructure from what i can seeo i think that's pretty much what spelled disaster for that airplane in striking the housing structure for the instrument landing equipment. >> well, truly a tragedy and we're grateful for the two that survived but my goodness, what a travesty, thank you, kyle

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>> new year's eve is right around the corner and 2024 is coming to an end. rachel: it's been a very full year for a lot of us, a lot of news and a lot of fun. will: let's take a look back at some of our favorite moments. >> we don't know exactly what happens on this couch during the weekend. >> good morning, welcome to "fox & friends." come on in. >> we're grateful to all of you who are here with us this morning. [laughter] >> i can walk around too. hello, everybody. >> i didn't know what i was going to say. what a mess. [laughter] rachel: those two have been ganging up on me today. >> buckle up for a four hour tour. >> let's do it.

♪ rachel: we're going to turn now to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth. >> i have so many comments and 45 seconds to do the weather. do you watch every morning? >> i do. >> she's just grabbing the microphone. >> could i beat you in a geography competition? >> not a chance. >> everything's a competition here. ♪ >> on your mark, get set, go! ♪ >> victory lap! >> how about we bring the kids in. the kids against the "fox & friends" hosts. >> how long is a president's term in office? yes, right here. >> four years. rachel: you're looking outside at our square right now where there's an election themed

carnival. ♪ >> go ahead. [laughter] >> we were just out there on fox square. >> we had cats loose on the set. >> cats are running around everywhere. rachel: we have puppies in the green room, we have barbecue. >> i'm going to let you taste this. texas style barbecue -- >> not a bad morning. rachel: feels like college days, eating pizza at this hour. >> she brought us donuts. >> i don't normally have onion rings for breakfast. >> we haven't broken charlie into "fox & friends weekend" fully yet. rachel: it's time for a pop culture roundup. >> i watch you guys every weekend. you have the best show, great rapport, great to be with you. >> thank you for being here. >> so great to be with you this morning. >> it's a real blessing to be with you. looking forward to being back on

fox. >> i grabbed doing and came to see you. >> i just woke up. i'm all excited. >> i couldn't find the words. >> i'm so grateful to be here. you guys are often. rachel: we can't let the speaker go without doing a donald trump impression. >> it's not good for my career. [laughter] >> but imitation is the greatest form of flattery. >> we sat down with donald trump yesterday. this is the first interview since the verdict. where's your head at? >> i'm fighting for the constitution, fighting for the same thing that you three -- i watch you all the time. same thing you do, you fight for freedom, you fight for your country. rachel: we were with him last night for our interview and then he went to the ufc fight. >> this is him showing the fighting spirit coming out of the convention, out of the verdict. >> do you want donald trump back in the ring at wwe. >> i don't know how well this would work out in the ring. >> will is the celebrity

whisperer at this point. >> kevin costner, there's something american about the choices you make. i mean, baseball, the old west. >> i'm going to make a picture about apple pie. watch. >> it's incredible, the american experience, to be out here. ♪ rachel: i also went to an arizona ranch to talk to a real life cowboy. >> yesterday was the new york city navy seals swim. >> go will! >> how wonderful. rachel: it's so great having pete out in butler, pennsylvania this morning. >> usa! usa! usa! >> we watch you every day. >> thank you very much. rachel: are you willing to take on a position like this in the trump administration as health czar? >> one way or the other, i'm going to be fighting to get this stuff out of our food.

>> football is back. college football is back. >> texas long horns, baby. horns up. >> that was awesome. >> rachel campos duffy is better at predicting sports than will cain and clay travis. rachel: is the greatest sports headline of all time. you know, dak has too interceptions. >> that's not true. rachel: it turned out to be true. >> will lost the best because mavericks lost. >> today is national dance day. we love to show our moves. rachel: i'm seeing h l h lepren in you. >> we have a little fun here.

it's a rare opportunity to get to work with your friends. our friend, our colleague, pete hegseth has accepted the nomination of secretary of defense under donald trump. we are incredibly happy for pete, we should all be incredibly happy for america, but we're sad because we're miss our friend on the curvey couch. rachel: we are all better because of him. that's the kind of leadership we need. >> it's amazing to be part of the last seven years. we got a little choked up earlier. we were at a loss for words. second time we watched it. it's a special show to be part of. we were just discussing it. it's obviously, you know, pete, rachel and i have had an incredible relationship and the inclusion of rick and adam, it's just a wonderful family. what an opportunity. and to have charlie and joey and others join our family, it's a really unique experience to be part of this family. rachel: i have to say that ditto to everything you said.

watching it, i can't believe the crazy stuff we do and the food we eat. >> we eat all the time. i watch that and i get chills and i feel so fortunate that i goat be a little piece of what you guys do. will: we feel fortunate not just for both of your presence, and i men mentioned rick and jos well. we are going to incredibly miss the secretary of defense here on the curvey couch. rachel: we sure are. will: we're glad you're a member of our family and will stick with us. the u.s. is set to hit the top of the debt ceiling. what it means for you, next last year, those viruses hospitalized nearly 1 million people 65 and older. so if someone you love is older, talk with them about vaccines. let's monopoly go! friends are like money. keke, i won again?

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will: the university of iowa announcing plans to close the gender, women and sexuality studies department after iowa state board of regents recently approved recommendations to scale back dei initiatives in the state. the proposal set to go into effect on july 1st, 2025. and nba star victor wimbinaya inviting friends and fans over the weekend to challenge him in a game of chess. he said anybody who wants to play me, come meet me in washington square park. he's the reigning rookie of the year. the spurs beat the nets when they visited new york the night before. he said chess is his favorite

hobby outside of basketball. the nba, lean into this, connect with your fans and those are your headlines. let's check in with meteorologist adam klotz for the forecast. >> after a rainy couple of days in new york city, it's drying out right now and it's beautiful. i've got happy people behind me. when i was coming out to do this, i saw you guys taking your picture with will cain, what was that experience like? >> so exciting. so awesome. >> i love getting my picture taken with will cain. if you look at the photos, you'll notice i snuck up behind will. i did photo bomb you. let's dive into the forecast. talking about some storms currently moving across the south to southeast, that's going to be the big story here the next couple hours, certainly one you want to pay attention to as we're seeing severe thunderstorms, isolated tornadoes popping unthroughout the rest of the afternoon, this is the area where we have a risk for severe weather. on fox square, we'll throw it

back into rachel but can i get a big, back to you. one, two, three. >> back to you. >> back to you, rachel. rachel: as president-elect donald trump gets ready to take office, janet yellen is issuing a stark warning to congress about the future of the debt ceiling. she says treasury currently expects to reach the new limit between january 14th and january 233rd at which time it will be necessary foretreasury to start taking extraordinary measures. i respectfully urge congress to act to protect the full faith and credit of the united states. here with more on this and what this means for you and your wallet, fox news contributor and former congressman jason chaffets. so what are these measures that janet yellen is talking about when she says things are getting really bad? >> well, they could start slowing down the spending but you know, the biden administration could have done this months ago. they could have done it a year

ago. they didn't take care of business when they were supposed to. they've been accelerating the spending. they haven't been slowing it down. that is absolutely ridiculous. they're trying to screw over donald trump as he comes into office. he's not even sworn in until january 20th for good necessary sake so they didn't do their business and now donald trump's going to have to come in and help clean up this mess. rachel: it's kind of bogus when they say we're running out of money. we gave $64 billion to ukraine. they just approved yesterday or this past week 1.2 billion for ukraine so don't tell me we're running out of money as you're willing to give it to ukraine to defend their borders, our borders are wide open. we're talking about stem programs here, jason chaffets. we could have programs, job programs, stem programs that employ our own people but we don't have the money somehow so how will this hamper the trump administration? what do you expect that this dilemma of running out of money, how will that impact donald

trump and how will he deal with that? >> well, it kind of gets into the weeds. it's sort of insider baseball but it has to do with how they score tax cuts. so remember, when we had the first round of trump tax cuts, everybody up and down the economic scale got tax cuts. right? when that happened, revenue to the treasury went up but when you look at how they score it within congress, the congressional budget office and whatnot, when they look at that, they say oh, tax cuts, that's missed revenue. it's not. that's what accelerates the economy, that's what drives revenue to the treasury. so that's what we have to look at. so in order for donald trump to use the reconciliation package with congress to actually implement things that are going to be stimulating to the economy and help drive down inflation, you've got to do two things. put the tax cut in place. cut the spending. but the scoring slows you down and that's what donald trump's going to have to tackle right

out of the chutes. rachel: there's no question, we're spending too much. we're printing too much money and at some point the chickens will come home to roost and that leaves a lot on the pleat when donald trump and the flew congress comes in. let's talk about you. you are hosting sunday morning futures this week. what do you have and what are you going to plan to talk about? >> pretty excited about it. filling in for maria bartiromo. it's sunday morning futures. so we're going to be talking about what's happening particularly on friday, friday is when they have to swear in the new speaker so we have two chairmen. brian mass is the incoming chairman of the foreign relations committee. you have james comer, the chairman of the oversight committee. we're going to talk with alena habba and former national security advisor, ambassador robert o'brien e we have everything from china to how do you deal with the speaker's vote e to how do you fight back against the weaponization and the biden effort to make sure

that they protect the federal workforce instead of allowing a new president to go and administer that. there's a lot of things going on and we're going to talk about it to deion sunday morning futures at the top of the hour. rachel: i can't think of anyone better to do that. we look forward to that show. you have a great lineup. thanks for joining us and happy new year to you, jason. >> you too, rachel, thank you. rachel: you've got it. we're officially on the highway to the nfl playoffs, jen hale breaks down week 17's must-see matchups, that's next. ♪ i love that my daughter still needs me. but sometimes i can't help due to burning and stabbing pain in my hands, so i use nervive. nervive's clinical dose of ala reduces nerve discomfort in as little as seven days. now i can help again feel the difference with nervive.

>will: week 17 of the nfl on fx is here with games with huge playoff implications. here to break it down is nfl on fox sideline reporter jen hale. good morning, jen. >> good morning, will. hope you had a great christmas. will: i did. hope you did as well. we're back into america's game of the week. let's talk bouts about what's cg up at 1:00 on fox, which includes a rivalry game, even if the cowboys have no playoff

hopes, they're still taking on the eagles. joe: the good news for the cow boys, they've been playing better football as of late. this is building for next season, right, establishing culture. so eagles coming into this one, they can't help themselves a ton. they locked in the playoff spot, ethe they'll definitely be on the road. they're dealing with a rib injury thing, we'll see how much that affects him. another thing that will factor in, the weather in philly. they need to get the ball down to the receivers. the key for the eagles, feed saquon b b barkley. they want to get out of their healthy. will: cowboys shut down cd. my expectations are not high,

jen. >> i understand. will: giants, colts, also at 1:00. this may not be for the playoffs or championship but for me, there's a fantasy championship on the line. >> and that's very important. right? absolutely. okay. so anthony richardson, he's a no-go today. joe flak is going to lead the charge here. the colts still alive technically. chargers win would put them out of it. if the chargers lose, they must win today in order to secure this. the other thing to watch over on the giants sideline, two different story lines with a loss at home, the giants would have the very dubious distinction of going down in nfl history with nine home losses in a season. then you've got the star wide receiver looking to set records. he's had at least five catches in 13 consecutive games. he wants to get the record today so i expect a big game out of him despite the fact he's also a

bit banged up. >.will: the big game of the wek is vikings, packers, that has play off implications. >> these are two of the best teams in football right now. this is going to be an awesome showdown this afternoon. the vikings have a ton to play for. they're trying to take the lions for the number one seed. the way they're playing, i think they can do it given detroit's injuries. they're going to come out swinging on all cylinders. the packers are playing their best football of the season again in december. in just find ways to flip that switch. and yeah, they have been really good on offense of it's their defense that has shown the most improvement. sam darnold's been great. they're on notice today, packers defense will try take advantage, try make life miserable. point spread here, will, only a point and-a-half so for fantasy owners, for betting folks, usually the home team gets 3 points for the odds makers to have this thing at 11 and-a-half, -- 1 and-a-half, this will be a battle until the end. will: we'll be watching that

today. thank you, jen. >> thanks, will. have a great one. will: check local listing for the games in your area before tuning into america's game of the week at 4:00. okay. more "fox & friends," moments away. ♪

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